Cary Loren (1955) is an artist, musician, publisher and bookstore keeper from Oak Park, Michigan. Together with Niagara, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, Loren was a founder member of proto-punk noise band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s. He also founded his psych-folk band Monster Island and teamed up with the Miller brothers in the short-lived band Xanadu in the late 1970s and with Barry Roth in Nightcrawlerz in the 1980s. As a visual artist Loren has been active as a photographer, filmmaker and collagist since the early 1970s. Together with his wife Colleen Kammer, he has run Book Beat, a fine independent bookstore in Oak Park…
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New in: Energy unveiled and re-formed (EVP Experiments)
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) are voices from the spirit world that are detected in sound recordings. EVP have formed a field of paranormal research since the 1940s. One of its pioneers was Russian-born Swedish artist Friedrich…
CM von Hausswolff – Energy unveiled and re-formed (EVP Experiments)
New: First collated copy of Ira Cohen’s ‘From the Divan of Petra Vogt’
From the Divan of Petra Vogt was published in 1976 in an edition of 250 by Cold Turkey Press, Rotterdam. The handsome and sought-after edition contains poems and photographs from Kathmandu by Ira Cohen and artwork by Petra Vogt. During a stay in Rotterdam in the summer of 1976 Cohen put together his edition together with publisher Gerard Bellaart. This particular copy is the first collated one, the pages still uncut and some of them hand…
Extravagant Circus of the Mouth: Slowscan releases Julien Blaine
French artist and poet Julien Blaine was born as Christian Poitevin in Rognac in 1942. Already at the age of twenty he published his first poetry magazine Les Carnets de l’Octéor and turned to action poetry with his piece Rep éléphant 306, in which he interviewed a circus elephant, two years earlier than Michael McClure’s famous poetry reading to lions. In 1976 Blaine launched Doc(k)s, an international magazine…